Some Issues in Intelligent Processing of Linguistic Information

Abstract

In order to achieve a higher and more intelligent level of processing linguistic information than is currently accomplished by conventional technologies, it is believed necessary to obtain deeper understanding of some of the fundamental aspects of language, as well as of the way humans deal with these aspects. The present paper first takes up ambiguity, vagueness, and variability, and presents some definitions and formulations, mainly on the basis of the author’s own studies. It then discusses human processes of language comprehension and language acquisition, and proposes to model these processes to be incorporated into machine processing. Finally, new frontiers of research are briefly mentioned.